Publications

Conference and workshop proceedings

2023

1. LEAP: Efficient and Automated Test Method for NLP Software
   Mingxuan Xiao, Yan Xiao, Hai Dong, Shunhui Ji, Pengcheng Zhang
   in Proc. of IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
   

2022

1. Repairing Failure-inducing Inputs with Input Reflection
   Yan Xiao, Yun Lin, Ivan Beschastnikh, Changsheng Sun, David S. Rosenblum, Jin Song Dong
   in Proc. of IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
   

2021

1. Self-checking deep neural networks in deployment [video] [implementation]
   Yan Xiao, Ivan Beschastnikh, David S. Rosenblum, Changsheng Sun, Sebastian Elbaum, Yun Lin, Jin Song Dong
   in Proc. of IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE, acceptance rate: 22%)
   

2. ROCT: Radius-based Class Overlap Cleaning Technique to Alleviate the Class Overlap Problem in Software Defect Prediction
   Shuo Feng, Jacky Keung, Jie Liu, Yan Xiao, Xiao Yu, Miao Zhang
   in Proc. of IEEE 45th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC, acceptance rate: 27%)
   

2020

1. Smart Contracts Vulnerability Auditing With Multi-Semantics [data]
   Zhen Yang, Jacky Keung, Miao Zhang, Yan Xiao, Yangyang Huang, Tik Hui
   in Proc. of IEEE 44th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC, acceptance rate: 24%)
   

2019

1. A Heuristic Approach to Break Cycles for the Class Integration Test Order Generation
   Miao Zhang, Jacky Keung, Yan Xiao, Md Alamgir Kabir, Shuo Feng
   in Proc. of IEEE 45th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC, acceptance rate: 24%)
   

2018

1. Bug Localization with Semantic and Structural Features using Convolutional Neural Network and Cascade Forest [data]
   Yan Xiao, Jacky Keung, Qing Mi, Kwabena E. Bennin
   in Proc. of 22nd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE, acceptance rate: 30%)
   

2. Improving Bug Localization with Character-level Convolutional Neural Network and Recurrent Neural Network
   Yan Xiao, Jacky Keung
   in Proc. of 25th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC, acceptance rate: 27%)
   

3. A Gamification Technique for Motivating Students to Learn Code Readability in Software Engineering (Excellent Paper Award)
   Qing Mi, Jacky Keung, Xiupei Mei, Yan Xiao, W. K. Chan
   in Proc. of International Symposium on Educational Technology (ISET)
   

4. BlueJ-UML: Learning Object-Oriented Programming Paradigm using Interactive Programming Environment
   Jacky Keung, Yan Xiao, Qing Mi, Victor C. S. Lee
   in Proc. of International Symposium on Educational Technology (ISET)
   

5. An Inception Architecture-Based Model for Improving Code Readability Classification
   Qing Mi, Jacky Keung, Yan Xiao, Solomon Mensah, Xiupei Mei
   in Proc. of 22nd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE, acceptance rate: 30%)
   

2017

1. Improving Bug Localization with an Enhanced Convolutional Neural Network [data]
   Yan Xiao, Jacky Keung, Qing Mi, Kwabena E. Bennin
   in Proc. of 24th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC, acceptance rate: 34%)
   

2. Identifying Textual Features of High-Quality Questions: An Empirical Study on Stack Overflow [implementation]
   Qing Mi, Yujin Gao, Jacky Keung, Yan Xiao, Solomon Mensah
   in Proc. of 24th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC, acceptance rate: 34%)
   

3. Using Eye Tracking Technology to Analyze the Impact of Stylistic Inconsistency on Code Readability
   Qing Mi, Jacky Keung, Jianglin Huang, Yan Xiao
   in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRC, acceptance rate: 29%)
   

Journal publications

1. Self-checking deep neural networks for anomalies and adversaries in deployment
   Yan Xiao, Ivan Beschastnikh, Yun Lin, Rajdeep Singh Hundal, Xiaofei Xie, David S. Rosenblum, Jin Song Dong
   IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 2022
   

2. BiAn: Smart Contract Source Code Obfuscation
   Pengcheng Zhang*, Qifan Yu, Yan Xiao*, Hai Dong, Xiapu Luo, Xiao Wang, Meng Zhang
   IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 2023
   

3. Adversarial Robustness of Deep Neural Networks: A Survey from a Formal Verification Perspective
   Mark Huasong Meng, Guangdong Bai*, Sin Gee Teo, Zhe Hou, Yan Xiao*, Yun Lin, and Jin Song Dong
   IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 2022
   

4. On the Significance of Category Prediction for Code-Comment Synchronization
   Zhen Yang, Jacky Keung, Xiao Yu, Yan Xiao, Zhi Jin, Jingyu Zhang
   Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 2022
   

5. Node-Constrained Traffic Engineering: Theory and Applications
   George Trimponias, Yan Xiao, Xiaorui Wu, Hong Xu, Yanhui Geng
   IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2019
   

6. A Semi-supervised Approach for Industrial Anomaly Detection via Self-adaptive Clustering
   Xiaoxue Ma, Jacky Keung, Pinjia He, Yan Xiao*, Xiao Yu*, Yishu Li
   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS 2023
   

7. Improving the undersampling technique by optimizing the termination condition for software defect prediction
   Shuo Feng, Jacky Keung, Yan Xiao, Peichang Zhang*, Xiao Yu, Xiaochun Cao
   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS 2023
   

8. A survey on smart contract vulnerabilities: Data sources, detection and repair
   Hanting Chu, Pengcheng Zhang, Hai Dong, Yan Xiao, Shunhui Ji, Wenrui Li
   Information and Software Technology 2023
   

9. Predicting the precise number of software defects: Are we there yet?
   Xiao Yu, Jacky Keung, Yan Xiao, Shuo Feng, Fuyang Li, Heng Dai
   Information and Software Technology 2022
   

10. Improving bug localization with word embedding and enhanced convolutional neural networks [data]
    Yan Xiao, Jacky Keung, Kwabena E. Bennin, Qing Mi
    Information and Software Technology 2019
    

11. Machine translation-based bug localization technique for bridging lexical gap
    Yan Xiao, Jacky Keung, Kwabena E. Bennin, Qing Mi
    Information and Software Technology 2018
    

12. The impact of the distance metric and measure on SMOTE-based techniques in software defect prediction
    Shuo Feng, Jacky Keung, Peichang Zhangc, Yan Xiao*, Miao Zhang
    Information and Software Technology 2021
    

13. The effectiveness of data augmentation in code readability classification
    Qing Mi, Yan Xiao, Zhi Cai, Xibin Jia
    Information and Software Technology 2021
    

14. Investigation on the stability of SMOTE-based oversampling techniques in software defect prediction [implementation]
    Shuo Feng, Jacky Keung, Xiao Yu, Yan Xiao, Miao Zhang
    Information and Software Technology 2021
    

15. COSTE: Complexity-based OverSampling TEchnique to alleviate the class imbalance problem in software defect prediction
    Shuo Feng, Jacky Keung, Xiao Yu, Yan Xiao, Kwabena Ebo Bennin, Md Alamgir Kabir
    Information and Software Technology 2021
    

16. Validating class integration test order generation systems with Metamorphic Testing
    Miao Zhang, Jacky Keung, Tsong Yueh Chen, Yan Xiao
    Information and Software Technology 2021
    

17. Evaluating the effects of similar-class combination on class integration test order generation [implementation]
    Miao Zhang, Jacky Keung, Yan Xiao*, Md Alamgir Kabir
    Information and Software Technology 2021
    

18. Improving code readability classification using convolutional neural networks [data]
    Qing Mi, Jacky Keung, Yan Xiao, Solomon Mensah, Yujin Gao
    Information and Software Technology 2018
    

19. A New Symbolization and Distance Measure based Anomaly Mining Approach for Hydrological Time Series
    Pengcheng Zhang, Yan Xiao, Yuelong Zhu, Dingsheng Wan, Wenrui Li, Hareton Leung
    International Journal of Web Services Research 2016
    

20. A new step detection approach based on mobile termination
    Zheng Huang, Lixin Han, Yan Xiao
    Chinese Journal of Computers 2017
    

Patents

1. Method of predicting water level based on similarity search and improved BP neural network
   Pengcheng Zhang, Dingsheng Wan, Yan Xiao, et al
   Patent for invention, CN104239489B, current status: Grant. (China)
   

2. A combined prediction model based on similarity search
   Pengcheng Zhang, Yan Xiao, Hui Ma, et al
   Patent for invention, ZL201510360109.0, current status: Grant. (China)
   

3. A system of hydrological time series similarity search method based on embedded index
   Dingsheng Wan, Yan Xiao, Yaming Wang, et al
   Patent for invention, CN105069093B, current status: Grant. (China)